they will hurt our economy, add hundreds of thousands of americans to the unemployment line. this is not an abstraction. people will lose their jobs. >> $85 billion this year, $1.2 trillion over ten years. that's 13% cuts to defense, 9% to everything else. >> we're weeki ins away from th president's sequester and the president laid out no plan. >> reporter: the 2011 debt ceiling debacle, passed by congress and signed by the white house, a worst case scenario that would be so bad it would force lawmakers to make a deal. now it's become a poisoned pill that the nation may have to swallow, beginning march 1st. and if it happens, 70,000 children kicked off head start programs, putting more than 14,000 teaching and staff jobs at risk. fewer inspections for things like horse meat in your burgers, cuts to mental health programs mean almost 400,000 seriously mentally ill people will go untreated. homeland security drawdowns would result in longer wait times at airports and scaled back cyber security would mean more vulnerability to attacks from hackers in china and at home, threateni